The New Face of Small BusinessUS small businessWing on Wo, the oldest-running business in Manhattan’s Chinatown, is a shop and clubhouse for activists to address issues like gentrification
For Mei Lum, the oldest-running business in Manhattan’s Chinatown is at once a symbol of the neighborhood’s resilience and an informal living room where she came of age. In the space tucked behind Wing on Wo & Co’s modest red storefront on Mott Street, she shared meals with her family, took Chinese lessons with her grandparents and helped out with the cash register as a young girl. Read More...
SpaceIndia limbers up for space race as prime minister asks for the moonShuttle astronaut inspires New Delhi to challenge China's lofty ambitionsIt is more than thirty years since the American astronauts Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt wandered around the surface of the moon, scooped up several large chunks of rock and flew home. Since their last epic Apollo mission in December 1972, no one has been back.
But if India's prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has his way, the next astronaut to leave footprints on the moon's ghostly cratered surface could well be Indian. Read More...
DramaObituaryJean Heywood obituaryCharacter actor who starred as Bella Seaton in the BBC TV drama series When the Boat Comes InJean Heywood, who has died aged 98, was a character actor who found herself catapulted to national fame in 1976 as Bella, the matriarch who holds the poverty-stricken Seaton family together in the BBC TV drama When the Boat Comes In, James Mitchell’s story of a recession-hit Tyneside community between the two world wars. Read More...